Overtaxed Brains

More "research":

Paying taxes feels good, say researchers.

Bill Harbaugh at the University of Oregon in Eugene...says that people probably like paying taxes more than they admit. He believes the results of his new study help explain the widespread compliance with tax laws. "We like to complain about it, but based on what we do, we are not as opposed to it as we like to say," Harbaugh says.

Economist Robert Frank of Cornell University comments that tax-paying might stimulate positive feelings in the brain because the process helps equalise the burden of helping others.

Only people who spend their lives cloistered in a university could utter such drivel and actually believe it. Well... them and every Democrat in Congress.

Little clue, Mr. Harbaugh: the reason for "widespread compliance with tax laws" is that the alternative is to have everything you own confiscated by the IRS -- right before you're thrown into a small, dark cell with a tattooed 350-lb man who likes his anal sex rough. Those "positive feelings in the brain" after paying taxes are stimulated by the realization that you can live another twelve months without having to deal with the Internal Revenue Service.

Stupid academics.